Language alone the critical fetish of modernity
How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philoso...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2002.
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| Sumario: | How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language. Through a provocative reassessment of major thinkers on the idea of language-Saussure, Wittgenstein, Derrida. |
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| Descripción Física: | x, 261 p. ; 23 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 241-253) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780415942195 |
